wsus clients not reporting status

i have 25 clients moving 1 wsus server another.  have been working fine several months.  new server 3.0 sp1 running on server2003 standard.  clients set wsus server using registry entries.  being pointed new server via group policy.  machines show in wsus 3 show "not yet reported" last status reported.  other 3 show fine.
my head getting sore beating against wall.  appreciated!

tia
jim

for troubleshooting purposes, try execute following commands on 1 of clients failing report status.


open command prompt:

gpupdate.exe /force /wait:0  (you may want several times client side extensions unable apply gpo settings).

gpupdate.exe part of support tools, if not available outright.  can verify correct gpo applied using gpresult.exe



assuming settings applied client, execute 1 below.

wuauclt /detectnow /resetauthorization (this involve update agent).


hope helps! :)

before "trying" anything, innocuous group policy refresh, 1 should first conduct appropriate diagnostics , determine specifcially cause of failure. x86 clients easiest way client diagnostic tool; x64 systems you'll have review windowsupdate.log

however, issue that's existed more few hours, running gpupdate.exe isn't have real affect, since policy refreshes every 90 minutes. (note: gpupdate.exe native in operating systems.)

the wuauclt.exe command, given, syntactically incorrect. correct order of parameters is:
    wuauclt /resetauthorization /detectnow
however, again, without first identifying cause of non-reporting condition, not have real effect repeat events failing.

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